Dear community, Tonight we witnessed firsthand the violent suppression of a peaceful protest by the Berkeley Police Department on Telegraph and Durant. We were walking toward Bancroft and Telegraph when we noticed fifty police officers. Initially, a number of students and community members were gathered around chanting “Black Lives Matter” and “We are the people of the state of California” while audibly requesting that their fellow protesters stay peaceful. We then witnessed the police put on their gas masks and take out their batons. As we continued to peacefully, non-violently stand, the police began to move us back toward the sidewalk. When we moved back, they tear gassed the crowd. While running from the scene we heard and saw the residue of the first shot of what sounded like a rubber bullet into the crowd. As we ran further down Telegraph, more tear gas permeated the space and two more shots went off into the crowd. We were in a peaceful protest. The police officers, from our purview, attacked the crowd with tear gas and rubber bullets. Please look below at the video and photos we captured of this injustice! Re-post and spread.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 18:13:48 +0000
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